Ruger SR22 opinions

Xshot · Mar 16, 2016

My father is looking for a .22 for my mom to shoot. He likes the Mark III but I've heard it's awful to field strip and clean. I've heard good things about the SR22 elsewhere online but wanted your opinions before I recommend something to him.
Obviously my mother will check to make sure it fits her hand and all that.
I didn't want him getting something that is a PITA to clean or is unreliable.
Thanks.

Bertfish · Mar 16, 2016

Love mine. Runs good so far with everything from CCI to the bulk pack Remington.

Picked it up because the small frame fit my girlfriend's hand well.

My only complaint is the magazines. The bullets fit in them rather loosely; every now and then I'll get one which is tilted to one side of the magazine rather far which will result in the gun failing to pick up the next round.

glock9mm · Mar 16, 2016

I love mine. It shoots well and will eat anything I feed it.

Xshot · Mar 16, 2016

Easy to clean?

mcbruzdzinski · Mar 16, 2016

My students love it! It is a lot more simpler to clean than the Mark I/II/III pistol.

Bertfish · Mar 16, 2016

Xshot said:
Easy to clean?

IIRC it breaks down the same way as any other automatic pistol. So yes, relatively easy to clean.

Xshot · Mar 16, 2016

Awesome. Thank you all for the input.

highli99 · Mar 16, 2016

Love it. eats everything including cheap ammo. great with my suppressor including sub somic ammo and still cycles. easy to clean even with blowback design.

plinkerton · Mar 16, 2016

mcbruzdzinski said:
My students love it! It is a lot more simpler to clean than the Mark I/II/III pistol.

It's easier to give a cat a bath than clean the Mk III

slowpoke · Mar 16, 2016

I love mine now. Great trainer and fun to shoot.

Picked mine up in 2013 and it had the trigger disconnect problem, but Ruger fixed it in less than a week.

My only regret is not buying it with the threaded barrel.

Xshot · Mar 16, 2016

plinkerton said:
It's easier to give a cat a bath than clean the Mk III

Haha I'll make sure I use this analogy when discussing this with my dad.

TapRackBang · Mar 16, 2016

Really great little pistol. It's just a fun little plinker. I've put a few thousand rounds of cheap crap ammo through mine and never had a FTF or FTE. Can't go wrong there.

Only problem I had was the magazine disconnector. The magazine will rotate a little and the disconnector will slide off, resulting in a trigger reset failure. Removed that crap disconnector myself and flawless ever since. Bonus is the mags drop really free now too!

traveller · Mar 16, 2016

What is this 'cleaning' you talk about?

SR22 works great. Not a big fan of the DA trigger pull.

AACo · Mar 16, 2016

Love mine.

A few thousand rounds later, and still no issues. Like others have said, eats just about anything. Also makes a good suppressor host!

TOWcritter · Mar 16, 2016

I like mine. Pretty nice feel in my hands. It's got a small learning curve with the safety etc but its easy.....pretty accurate (for a .22 pistol) out to 25 yards so far for me.

Gmercury2000 · Mar 16, 2016

Great little shooter. Have 3 between the gf and I and love them. Only issue was a cracked breach block pin and the was after 15k rounds or so and ruger fixed it with no issues. Wouldn't hesitate to buy another.

molonlabe · Mar 16, 2016

plinkerton said:
It's easier to give a cat a bath than clean the Mk III

There is a trick to it and a lot of you tube videos to show how.

Bertfish · Mar 16, 2016

plinkerton said:
It's easier to give a cat a bath than clean the Mk III

Same with the MKII. My Dad cleaned his once. Never again

Alan3413 · Mar 17, 2016

Stripping the mk really isn't all that hard. Once you understand the hammer tang fits inside the indented cup on the mainspring housing, everything falls into place.

jasonk1229 · Mar 17, 2016

there is a new ruger coming out with economics closer to the mk, ruger lite. I havent shot one yet though.

also walther is decent I shot a few hundred rounds out a friends walther 22 had similar sr22 feeling.

http://www.ruger.com/products/2245Lite/models.html

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